{"id":403495,"date":"2021-03-08T08:58:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403495"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:14:40","slug":"why-global-power-grids-are-still-vulnerable-to-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-global-power-grids-are-still-vulnerable-to-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why global power grids are still vulnerable to cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than five years after massive cyber attacks left a quarter of a million Ukrainians without electricity, the world\u2019s power grids have become even more vulnerable to hackers.<\/p>\n<p>As utilities turn to sources of renewable energy and add millions of other components like smart meters, they\u2019re rapidly multiplying the number of connections and sensors along their networks, widening the potential for intrusions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower grids are getting increasingly vulnerable because of digitalization and the use of more smart applications,\u201d said Daine Loh, a Singapore-based power and renewables analyst at Fitch Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a threat highlighted in an initial probe in India that found an October blackout in Mumbai may have been caused by cyber sabotage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than five years after massive cyber attacks left a quarter of a million Ukrainians without electricity, the world\u2019s power grids have become even more vulnerable to hackers. As utilities turn to sources of renewable energy and add millions of other components like smart meters, they\u2019re rapidly multiplying the number of connections and sensors along their networks, widening the potential for intrusions. \u201cPower grids are getting increasingly vulnerable because of digitalization and the use of more smart applications,\u201d said Daine Loh, a Singapore-based power and renewables analyst at Fitch Solutions. It\u2019s a threat highlighted in an initial probe in India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}